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Why couldnt I handle those? Thats a 844 telehandler correct? I do those for United rentals all the time.

The roller not sure,.. never done a HAM,.. but have done a few others that size. Neither one of those looks to be anywhere near the heaviest machines I have had on my deck.

Unless they were hiding in a nuclear bunker,.. if you found them I think I could find them too. Thats a silly thing to say. I've done the turn down this dirt road,. go 6 miles past the 2 fuel storage tanks, bare left at the fork, follow that up so and so,.. you arent the only one who has been out like that.

I was just trying to joke around.

Hurst

 

I know you were just joking but seriously, your 53' spread would not make it in there. Besides your directions are better than what I got. Might as well be a bunker because it is an old mine cleanup site for the roller. All I got was directions to the gate, kinda. If I had not been lookin in the mirror I would have driven right past it. It was hiding behind a rock truck.

As for the telehandler, there is one place you have to squeeze between the creek and cutout in the rocks and the dovetail barely makes it through that corner. Your axles would be too far back. No you cannot swing wider because the rock on one side and a 4' drop into a creek on the other.

That and the 33 loaded miles. So no you could not have handles these. You seem to get really up tight when someone says you cannot handle something. Yet you make comments like the one you did and wonder why people get mad at you.

We all know how awesome a medium sized equipment hauler and operator you are, you have told us. But the fact still remains that you are not using equipment designed for the purpose. Hence the reason you ripped off the back of the trailer. That little incident is no big deal to you but it could have been much much worse than it turned out to be. What if only one ramp had let go? Machine rolled and operator got injured?

There is a big difference in loading something from a dock VS loading via ramps. I would haul equipment all day from a dock onto a flat or step deck but it I have to load via ramps then I am getting the proper trailer.

Now you can type until you are blue in the face but you are going to do what you are going to do and have said as much before. I have said my peace, now I am done.

 

Sounds in line with my normal!

Had a 500 mile day last week, I should take next week off in order to offset that and maintain my daily average!!!

 

Hear! Hear!

 

Headed back to Virginia. This was preloaded by someone else, with 6 chains. I threw two more. Loads 42,000 lbs. I don't like how the back is hanging midair.

Any criticism? Advice?

 

Move the chain up next to the dunnage. With the flexing of the trailer and the steel that chain can come loose. But if you have it next to the dunnage you can really crank down on it.

If you are going to put chains every 10 feet then you also need dunnage at those points.

Just imagine going down the road, trailer flexes up in the middle and the steel down then WHAM! they bounce back and are stopped by the chains. Really good way to damage the securement and or the trailer.

 

Makes sense. Thank you, I moved the back one. There is 6 total pieces of dunnage, 3 on the bottom 3 in the middle. So to do it properly more use more dunnage, and place chains near the dunnage?

I also don't like how they use different size dunnage.

 

Here is a perfect example. 68' long and that stretch trailer really bounces going down the road. The concrete however does not hardly flex at all. But the only securement points are at the ends right near the dunnage.

Yep if you want to do it the safest way then put dunnage where ever you are going to be placing chains.

 

Looks like they did that because of the bow in the deck. The middle layer dunnage is the same thickness all the way across. I'd be more worried about the center dunnage crushing and giving slack to the chains

 

There's a difference?